Marquette Tribune, September 11, 2014, Vol. 99, No. 5

              Vijay (left) and Manoj Swearingen prepare food for customers in their Pita Bros mobile restaurant, which will be opening its first brick-and-mortar store
in one half of the former Campus Dollar location on Wisconsin Avenue. The other half of the location will be opened to another unamed vendor.
Photos by Mattie Pieschel/madeline.pieschel@marquette.edu
By Jacob Born
jacob.born@marquette.edu
See Scholl, Page 6
MU names
Scholl as
new athletic
director
Marquette held an introduc-tory
press conference Tuesday
afternoon to welcome Bill Scholl
as the school’s new Athletic
Director and vice president.
University President Michael
Lovell opened the press confer-ence
by talking about the quality
of the candidates the university
had to choose from.
“The pool of candidates that
we got really have verified to me
what a strong national reputa-tion
Marquette has,” Lovell said.
“It’s really a destination where
excellent individuals will make
outstanding contributions and be-come
strong leaders.”
Lovell met with every senior
leader and coach at Marquette to
see what they wanted and needed
in an athletic director, and used
that information in the search
for a new AD. Lovell looked for
someone who would support
Marquette’s coaches, create a
unique student-athlete experi-ence,
be a partner he could work
with on scholarships and funding,
in addition to a leader on campus.
Lovell said he believes Scholl
holds all of those qualities.
“When I spoke with Bill, all
of these qualities resonated with
him personally,” Lovell said. “I
found that they defined who he
was as a person ... but most im-portantly,
what Bill represents is
the values that we aspire to here at
Marquette University.”
Lovell also commented on the
reputation that precedes Scholl.
“Since making the announce-ment
(Tuesday morning), I have
been overwhelmed by people that
have sent me things about Bill and
the decision to make him our next
athletic director,” Lovell said.
Scholl received a round of ap-plause
when he stepped up to
the podium, and he started his
speech by listing off the historic
members of the Marquette ath-letic
department, and said how
important that history was to him.
He also thanked all of the stu-dent-
athletes in attendance at the
press conference.
“That’s what this is all about,”
Pita Bros to open shop at MU
By Andrew Dawson
andrew.dawson@marquette.edu
Pita Brothers, a popular local
food truck, will park its mo-bile
food service this semester
and move into the former Cam-pus
Dollar location on
Wisconsin Avenue.
This is Pita Brothers’
first brick-and-mortar
location, a lot which it will share
with another, unpicked tenant. It
will be located in the 1600 block
of W. Wisconsin Ave. along-side
Starbucks, Cousins Subs
and Walgreens.
“The space is being divid-ed
into two spaces, with Pita
Brothers leasing roughly half
of the space that was previ-ously
vacant,” said Jenny
Local food truck to
share former Campus
Dollar location at MU
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INDEX
CALENDAR...........................................2
DPS REPORTS.....................................2
CLASSIFIEDS.....................................5
MARQUEE.........................................8
OPINIONS.....................................10
SPORTS.............................................12
NEWS
PAGE 2
Killed the cat: Ozzi edition
As part of MUSG’s campaign to be
sustainable, it spent $45,000 from
the Reserve Fund on reusable boxes.
PAGE 7
New college rankings out
MARQUEE
PAGE 8
Stumps inspire at bus stops
Tree stumps StreetSeats brighten bus
stops on Wisconsin Ave. with jewels
and artistic inspirational messages.
OPINIONS
PAGE 11
Gozun: IS and POTUS
The situation with the Islamic State
shows the problems Obama faces in
effective decision-making.
PAGE 10
Scholl a promising addition
New athletic director reiterates goals
for a strong program and must live
up to them for lasting success.
SPORTS
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EDITORIAL
PAGE 13
Battle of Milwaukee Thurs.
The women’s soccer team takes on
Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Battle
of Milwaukee.
Marquette falls in the US News &
World Report college rankings,
although often criticized by officials.
Vijay Swearingen, co-founder of Pita Bros, creates one of the business’
signature dishes in its food truck while parked at Red Arrow Park.
Alexander, director of purchas-ing
for the Marquette Universi-ty
Purchasing Department, in an
email. “The Office of Finance
continues to focus on support-ing
merchant partnerships that
benefit both the university com-munity
and business owners,
and is excited to be adding Pita
Brothers to campus.”
Vijay Swearingen, who co-founded
Pita Brothers with his
brother Manoj in 2009, said he
is excited to come to campus
and closely interact with
his patrons.
“Marquette, I think,
lacks and maybe still
does (lack) enough healthy
food options,” Swearingen said.
“Obviously, you have to create
a menu that has healthy food
options, but you have to do it
in an efficient manner because
people, whether they’re stu-dents
or faculty or work nearby,
are always pressed for time.”
See Pita, Page 6